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Congrats to everyone who finished their Christmas shopping early, good luck to those racing the clock today and remember, a book is ALWAYS a good idea x
December 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Birds! Muskrats! BEAVERS!! Two minutes of busy evening action at the wetlands.

#birds #mammals 🌿
Winter Wildlife After Sunset
YouTube video by Get To Know Nature
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December 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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UCLA Library has been awarded a $296,615 Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources, enabling the Library to increase access to its significant collection of Middle Eastern and Islamicate manuscript volumes: ucla.in/4qgfZJY
December 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Today is the ONLY day the public can comment.

Demand a PUBLIC HEARING.
Here is the official rule proposal with a direct link to comment electronically, TODAY ONLY, Dec. 15.

In commenting it's very useful to REQUEST A PUBLIC HEARING on the proposal, which can add time for further consideration.

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Equal Credit Opportunity Act (Regulation B)
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau or CFPB) is issuing a proposed rule for public comment that amends provisions related to disparate impact, discouragement of applicants or prospective ...
www.federalregister.gov
December 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Matthew Vest, a music inquiry and research librarian at the Walter H. Rubsamen Music Library, has received a UCLA Global Research Award for Resonate 2026, a global open access musical score project.

Read more about Resonate 2026 and other winning projects: ucla.in/4p9w9o1
December 12, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Good luck on finals, Bruins! Whether you’re hitting the books in one of our libraries or studying elsewhere, UCLA Library is here to support you 💙📚 ucla.in/46LsgPZ

📸 University Archives, UCLA Library Special Collections
December 10, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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UCLA Library has completed a yearlong preservation project to digitize 173 audiovisual items from the East West Players — the longest-running Asian American theater group in the United States. Materials are now available for access.

Read about the preservation process: ucla.in/3XpfhxD
December 6, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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UCLA Library bridges collections, scholarship and innovation, helping students, faculty and public scholars generate knowledge at the intersection of teaching, learning and research.

Take a look at what the Library has achieved in our full 2024-2025 Impact Report: library.ucla.edu/impact/2025
December 4, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.

Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Ready to take your library career to the next level?

Applications are now open for international mid to senior library and archive professionals to join us in July 2026 for the International Library Leaders Programme.

Learn more bit.ly/BL-ILLP
November 26, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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The Villa of the Birds located in Alexandria, Egypt hosts a stunning array of Early Roman mosaics conserved by five transnational agencies between 1998-2000.

View more photos documenting the conservation process through the UCLA Library International Digital Ephemera Project: ucla.in/4nNOgOT
November 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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You might not have caught what just happened on the Senate floor, but the Senate just “deemed as passed” the Epstein resolution.

That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk.

Wow.
November 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Amazon announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.

UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.

Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
November 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.

That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.

Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
November 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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When Massachusetts passed a "millionaires tax" in 2023, conservatives claimed the rich would flee.

But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education.

A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.
November 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Welcome to the new European Parliament. 

In the year and a half since the far right surged at the EU election, Brussels’ mainstream forces have been anxiously wondering if the center can hold. Yesterday, they discovered it couldn’t.
In Brussels, the far right can no longer be ignored  
EU conservatives working with the far right have signed the death warrant of the cordon sanitaire.
www.politico.eu
November 14, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Poverty is a policy decision.

Concentrated wealth is a policy decision.

Inequality is a policy decision.

Remember this.
November 12, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Because these chemicals can linger in water, soil, and even the human body. The public will have less data about potential exposure. The EPA will take public comments for 45 days before deciding whether to finalize the new exemptions.
EPA Proposes Changes to Make PFAS Reporting Requirements More Practical and Implementable, Reducing Regulatory Burden | US EPA
EPA released a proposal to improve the scope of its PFAS reporting regulations under TSCA to make them more practical and implementable and reduce unnecessary, or potentially duplicative, reporting re...
www.epa.gov
November 11, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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actual communism
Trump to the Novo Nordisk CEO: "Maybe you should give us a piece of the company like I've been asking for."
November 6, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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16 million children.
8 million seniors.
4 million people with disabilities.
1.2 million veterans.

That’s who relies on SNAP for nutritious food. That’s who’s being hurt by Republicans refusing to pay benefits in November.
October 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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In California, WIC will remain open and fully operational through November. Families should keep their scheduled WIC appointments and use their WIC cards for groceries as usual. Find updates at: myfamily.wic.ca.gov/Home/Federal...
#WIC #WICWorks #FundWIC
October 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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The first internet message was sent from UCLA fifty-six years ago 🌐

Watch PBS SoCal's "Lost L.A." host Nathan Masters visit UCLA Library Special Collections with internet pioneer, Prof. Leonard Kleinrock to see the logbook firsthand: www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-l...

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How This Contraption at UCLA Sent the First DM
At UCLA Professor Leonard Kleinrock reveals proof of when the internet was born.
www.pbssocal.org
October 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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When Massachusetts passed a "millionaires tax" in 2023, conservatives claimed the rich would flee.

But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education.

A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.
October 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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UCLA Library has fully published the collection “Material Culture of the Tule Lake Japanese Language Library.”

Consisting of over 1,900 volumes, the digitized materials give insight into the experience those unjustly incarcerated in the Tule Lake concentration camp during WWII: ucla.in/488oUr5
October 16, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Ray Bradbury was one of the most celebrated American authors and screenwriters of the 20th century. He is best known for "Fahrenheit 451" (1953), which was written on a typewriter in Powell Library's basement.

Ray Bradbury's papers are stewarded by UCLA Library Special Collections: ucla.in/3VUw2A4
October 14, 2025 at 11:14 PM